Cuspidor



(No Model.) I

' D. H. MURPHY.

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lUnrrn TATES PATENT Orict DANIEL H. MURPHY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

CUSPIDOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 378,610, dated February 28, 1888. Application filed July 14, 1887. Serial No. 244,246. (No model.)

To (1% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL H. MURPHY, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ouspidors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

My invention relates to the class of cuspidors or spittoons that are made of paper or like thin flexible fabric.

The object of myinvention is the production of an article of this class that shall be serviceable and extremely inexpensive; and to this end my invention consists of a cuspidor folded to shape from a single sheet of material, as more particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which my cuspidor is made. Fig. 2 is a plan view with the sides folded up. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the completed cuspidor. Fig. 4 is a side View of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes a blank that is cut from a sheet of material, preferably paper, of a character that is impervious to moisture. This blank is creased, as represented by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and then folded to the shape shown in Fig. 2, the space I) forming the bottom and the spaces 0 forming the side walls of the cuspidor. The article is then secured so as to retain this shape by fastening the gores e to the side walls, either by riveting, as shown in the drawings, or by gluing the gorcs to the sides. These gores c are made on such an angle as to cause the sidewalls to slope outwardly after they are folded up, so that the cuspidors may be packed one within another, and thus occupy a small space.

The pieces (1, when the article is to be used, are folded down, so as to form a sloping apron, with an opening, f, in the center for the reception of any refuse matter, the apron sloping sufficiently to allow any liquid to drain or any solid substance to slide into the receptacle out of View. The apron is held in this position by catching the edges of two of the oppositeflaps under the tongues h. These tongues are preferabl y formed by cutting U shaped slit-s in the edges of the material of two of the flaps and raising out the cut portion, so that when the apron is folded to place the edges of the lastfolded flaps may be tucked under these raised tongues and be so held that they cannot spring up out of place. tongues, slits may be cut in the edge of the flaps and the adjacent edge of the next flap tucked into these slits.

It is a disagreeable task to clean a foul cus pidor, and with frequent washings it is impossible to eradicate all of the objectionable odor that emanates from an old cuspidor. It is an expensive proceeding to throw away the ordinary cuspidor when it becomes unclean, and if this were undertaken it would require much room to store a sufficient number to last for any length of time. WVithmy improved cuspidor these are avoided.

The advantages that accrue from my inven tion are that the costs for material and labor are so nominal that the user can discard one as soon as it becomes in the least foul, and thus avoid the disagreeable task of cleaning and do away with the objectionable odor of a stale cuspidor by supplying a new one. My article, being made of one piece of material, will not leak, and can be unfolded and transported or stored in a flat condition or packed in nests in the form shown in Fig. 2. Vhen in the latter form, they readily pack one within another, the sides being sloped for that purpose, as well as to give a good configurative appearance to the article.

I claim as my invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a folded paper cuspidor having a bottom, side walls bent outward and upward from the bottom, the gores formed between the corners of the side walls being folded against and fastened to the side walls, and the inward and downward sloping apron, formed by bending over the tops of the side walls, having an opening If desired, instead of these.

through its center, and tongues cut from the 5 ward and fastened to the side walls, and the form side walls, eight gores, a, between the 10 apron formed by folding inward and downportions 0', and the portions d adjacent to the ward the tops of the side walls, the whole beportions 0, to form the apron of a cuspidor, subing folded from a single sheet of material, all stantially as shown, when folded to shape.

5 substantially as described.

3. A polygonal-shaped blank out from a- DANIEL MURPHY sheet of paper and creased to leave a rectan- \Vitnesses: gular portion, I), to form the bottom, four ob- H. H. WILLIAMS, long portions, 0, adjacent to the bottom, to A. B. JENKINS. 

